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when we mechanism of the mind and every human is talk of capable of using it. teaching science, 2. The learning process for the basic scientific we actually want to teach concepts has to be based on activity. the methodology 3. It is advantageous to use technical education and concepts of to give skills and then practice their science rather application in everyday life and give actual than a package experience of the scientific concepts of information. involved; this is different from the current practice of using contrived "experiments” to demonstrate the concepts and "tell" about their application in life situations. 2. NATURE OF LEARNING PROCESS Here, I am depending heavily on the Piaget theory, because it best fits my own experience. The learning method of the mind as propounded by Piaget is akin to the scientific method of making a hypothesis and an experiment to test it. Some of the concepts the mind learns by experience are as follows: i) Class membership and inclusion /intersection etc. ii) Image through transformation, iii) One to one correspondence - number concept. iv) Conservation of length, substance, etc. v) Reciprocity of relationship - addition and subtraction. vi) Special Coordinates, vertical, horizontal. vii) Probability. viii) Effects- "everything else being constant" ix) Permutations and combinations. x) Proportions and rate (velocity etc.) xi) Projections. xii) Proof. The above make up the logic of mathematical reasoning. Rural Development Through Education System 139
